How to Deal with the Stress of Living in Your Projections

The challenge of dealing with stress is understanding that when we are stressed, we are living in our projections. We are not living in the now, in reality, and in ourselves. We are projecting our fears and our worries onto something that does not exist.

"Wait, my stress is real, I feel it in my body", you might be thinking. What you are feeling when you are stressed is the effect of believing in the projections as something that are real. Your body is just responding in the way you have told it to. You told your body that you were stressed or fearful of a situation so it pumped in adrenaline and cortisone to help you deal with it. Your unconscious mind can't tell the difference between something vividly imagined and something that is really happening. The reality is that there was really nothing to deal with. The stressful situation hasn't occurred yet. But since your unconscious mind thinks it is occurring the body gets more stressed, which agitates the mind and causes your thoughts of stress and panic to increase. See the endless loop we can get in?

So what can we do. Well the first step is to realize that all that we fear and worry about is just a projection, a movie let's say, of the mind. If it is our movie, then we can direct it anyway we want to. We can step into the directors chair instead of letting other people take control over our mind. So now as the director why not change it up. The next time you find yourself stressed about something, add some music to the movie you are playing in your mind. First put in some upbeat music, see what happens. Now put in some slow romantic music, again see what happens. What about adding some cool voice over to the whole scene you are imagining. You know, like the guy that does the movie trailers.

Some more advanced ways to mix up your mental movie are to slow it down, speed it up and run it in reverse. Also try changing the colors of your mental movie by making it black and white or bright and cheerful.

Have fun directing your movies.

Wishing you the best,

Dr. John Zipp